The situation opened up a very interesting discussion on our team. All of us on the team use AI tools in our job (you'd be a fool not to these days). I even use the copilot tool that the candidate used. But the difference is that I don't rely on it, and any code it produces I'm actively registering in my head. I would never let it write something that I don't understand without taking the time to understand it myself.

I do agree though. Why do intellisense and copilots feel so different from one another? I think part of it is that with intellisense you generally need to start the action before it auto suggests, whereas with copilots you don't even need to initiate the action.